Lindheimer's beeblossom is a long-lived hardy perennial that is native to Texas and Louisiana. It has an airy habit, fine green, rose or purple-hued foliage and tall stems lined with delicate, open, five petaled flowers with long prominent anthers. These bee and butterfly magnets appear from early summer to fall and are generally pink in bud opening to white. Remove spent flower stalks to extend flowering and prevent self-sowing. There are many beeblossom cultivars that vary in height, vigorousness,...

(Narrow-leaved Treasure Flower)

Forming a mat of slender, dark green leaves, narrow-leaved treasure flower produces many the golden orange flowers in spring and summer. It is an alpine species that exists at higher elevations in southern Africa, so it’s quite cold hardy if provided moderately dry growing conditions in winter. In frost free areas it is evergreen but may become semi-evergreen or die back to the ground where winters are dip below freezing.

The plant forms spreading rosettes of narrow, long-stemmed leaves of dark...

(Colorado Gold® Treasure Flower, Narrow-leaved Treasure Flower)

Forming a tufted, mat-like groundcover, the narrow, dark green leaves of Colorado Gold treasure flower species are a handsome backdrop for the sunny yellow flowers in late spring and summer. One of the more cold hardy treasure flowers, this plant is evergreen in frost free regions and mostly deciduous in areas when winters are mildly subfreezing. It's native to the cool-elevations of South Africa's mountains.

The narrow leaves have long petiole stems and are dark green or deep gray-green. In...

(Lydia Broom)

Lydia woadwaxen is a lovely small deciduous shrub from rocky slopes of southeastern Europe and western, northern, and southern Turkey. In gardens it is represented mostly by prostrate forms, but in the wild it is often upright in habit. A noninvasive cousin of the familiar tall brooms (Cytisus spp.), it bears stiff branches and smallish green leaves for a fine textured look. The stems spread around stones and cascade gracefully off ledges. Their green color is welcome in the winter garden....

(Sweet Broom)

Silky woadwaxen is a lovely prostrate deciduous shrub from mountains and heathlands of Europe. A noninvasive cousin of the familiar tall brooms (Cytisus spp.), it bears stiff branches and smallish green leaves for a fine textured look. The stems scramble around stones and cascade gracefully off ledges, eventually covering an area many times their height. Their gray-green color is welcome in the winter garden. Growth rate is moderate. In mid-spring plants engulf themselves in masses of intense...

(Sweet Broom, Vancouver Gold Sweet Broom)

Silky woadwaxen is a lovely prostrate deciduous shrub from mountains and heathlands of Europe. Selected in British Columbia, Canada, 'Vancouver Gold' is among its most widely grown cultivars. A noninvasive cousin of the familiar tall brooms (Cytisus spp.), it bears stiff branches and smallish green leaves for a fine textured look. The stems scramble around stones and cascade gracefully off ledges, eventually covering an area many times their height. Their gray-green color is welcome in the...

(Hybrid Cranesbill)

Ornately lobed leaves create a pretty backdrop for the magenta-violet flowers with blue-black centers of the Ann Folkard cranesbill. Blooming occurs from late spring to fall, this hybrid's scrambling stems on spreading to mounded perennial plants require little maintenance.

The stems and rounded, deeply dissected leaves of this geranium are light green to yellow-green and hairy. In late fall the leaves turn shades of yellow and red. Its delicate flowers first appear when temperatures heat up...

(Anne Thomson Cranesbill, Hybrid Cranesbill)

Ornately lobed leaves create a pretty backdrop for the magenta flowers with black veins and centers of the Ann Folkard cranesbill. Blooming occurs from summer to fall, this hybrid's a spreading to mounded perennial plant requiring little maintenance.

The stems and rounded, deeply dissected leaves of this geranium are light green to yellow-green and gold and hairy. In late fall the leaves turn shades of yellow and red. Its delicate flowers first appear when temperatures heat up in early summer....

(Hybrid Ashy Cranesbill, Hybrid Cranesbill)

Hardy geraniums (not to be confused with greenhouse geraniums, which belong to the genus Pelargonium) are a diverse group of herbaceous perennials found throughout the temperate regions. The cultivar 'Ballerina' (often assigned to Geranium cinereum) bears cup-shaped, pale lilac-pink, purple-veined flowers in late spring and early summer above compact mounds of soft, gray-green leaves. It prefers fertile, well-drained soil and sun to light shade, and tolerates periods of drought. 'Ballerina' works...

(Hybrid Cranesbill)

Ornately lobed bronzy leaves create a pretty backdrop for the deep pink flowers with of the Bertie Crûg cranesbill. Blooming occurs from late spring to fall, this hybrid perennial is a low, creeping mound requiring little maintenance.

The stems and rounded, deeply dissected leaves of this geranium are bronzy olive-green and hairy. In late fall the leaves turn shades of burgundy and bronze. Its delicate flowers first appear when temperatures heat up in late spring. The five-petaled blooms are...